Food Stamp Follies: Oregon Governor’s Publicity Stunt, and the Reporting

Posted on September 19th, 2007

Oregon governor Ted Kulongoski got lots of attention earlier this week as he tried to show us how allegedly inadequate the Food Stamp program is. However, the USDA’s “food stamp budget” provides per-person per-week benefits to recipients with no other available resources that are 28%-70% higher than the $21 used in the article.

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